About this Site

Overview

The purpose of Building Web Projects is to show ways to build websites that do not rely on complex frameworks. The articles on this site show uses of Server-Side Includes, a little Perl, and some JavaScript, which includes jQuery, of course. The ideas presented here will allow you to build nice, functional websites, that don't rely on a variety of technologies and frameworks that continue to change. Using the ideas in these articles will result in websites that are easy to develop, understand, and maintain.

History/Background

The ideas and techniques presented in these articles were things that I developed over the past several years used in the websites I developed. I liked them and thought they might be useful to others. Now, none of these are earth-shattering, they are simply ideas where I've implemented some basic technologies.

Do these ideas work?

I developed this site using the ideas presented on the website. And when I worked for a large government contractor in Southeast Idaho, I used these ideas to build their website back in 2005. So yes, they work, and work well even for large sites.

About me

My name is Dean Frickey. I graduated with degrees in Electrical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and spent the first several years of my career working in more traditional engineering roles. I first worked in a Systems Analysis group at the Boeing Military Airplane Company in Seattle, WA. Then I joined Raytheon Missle Systems Division in Bedford (later Tewksbury), Massachusetts and learned microwave circuit design. One paper came out of this work.

After several years there, and having had enough of large cities and the east coast, I had the opportunity to move back west and landed in Idaho where I discovered the Internet in 1995 and completely changed from engineering to web development. And that's where I am now. While there was no Internet when I was in college, I think that maybe my engineering skills and way of thinking resulted is some of the ideas I developed and put in these articles. I hope you'll find these useful.

Here's my ResearchGate page.

Here's my LinkedIn page.